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Sweden's Industrial City Eliminates Use of Fossil Fuels


Green Lifestyle  (tags: energy, Sustainabililty, conservation, renewable )

John
- 274 days ago - yellowsandblues.com
Kalmar, which has incomes lower than the national average, gets more than 65% of its energy from renewable sources. Publicly owned vehicles run on biogas made from waste wood and chicken manure, or Brazilian E85 ethanol Trucking co. practices eco-driving
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Cecilia Bowerman (153)
Monday March 23, 2009, 3:48 pm
Congratulations Sweden! you are a winer!
 

Lily K. (49)
Monday March 23, 2009, 7:03 pm
Well congratulations Sweden and the city of Kalmar. Maybe others can study this and learn from it and even apply it.
 

Gissel Escudero (14)
Tuesday March 24, 2009, 2:14 pm
I visited Sweden recently, stayed there for two months, and if you ask me, it is how the rest of the world should be.
 
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